The normal version can import only the backed-up .ibd file at the same place.

Note

This feature is unsupported with InnoDB data files created with MySQL 5.0 and MySQL 5.1 prior to version 5.1.7 due to InnoDB file format limitation. It may work in some cases, but may result in crashes on import as well, see bug #1000221 and bug #727704 for examples and details.

Percona Server5.5.28-29.2 extended the innochecksum with an option -f to read the file format information from a given InnoDB data file. As only the first page needs to be read to detect the format/version information, it can also be used on a running server. Example of the output should look like this:

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